YOUR BUSINESS AUTHORITY
Springfield, MO
by Carol Harris, Branson area, and Mary Engler-Guccione, Joplin area
The College of the Ozarks has been listed, for the third consecutive time, in Barron's 300 Best Buys in College Education.
It also received its 10th consecutive listing in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges issue.
Students at the college had the least debt load of students at any college in the United States. Only 4 percent of the students graduate with any debt at all, and the average per student is only $1,500.
That compares to the College of the Ozarks' sister work college, Berea of Kentucky, where 65 percent of students graduate owing $3,015 on average.
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